by Steve Thomason | Apr 13, 2010 | Uncategorized
1 Kings 8:10-13; 9:1-9 Solomon’s Temple is one of the wonders of the ancient world. It was a magnificent structure whose brilliant gold and white facade took one’s breath away. People would literally travel from all over the world to marvel at it. In today’s passage...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 12, 2010 | Uncategorized
1 Kings 4:29-34 In the 1990’s a book written by Bruce Wilkinson swept the nation. It was titled The Prayer of Jabez. In that book Bruce challenged Christians to step out in radical faith and to tear off the ceilings of limitations that they had placed on themselves...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 9, 2010 | Uncategorized
1 Kings 3:4-15 If you are familiar at all with Solomon you probably know that Solomon is famous for being wise. He is also famous for this scene in which he asked for wisdom. In studying this passage this week I had a little “aha” moment. It is easy to...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 8, 2010 | Uncategorized
2 Samuel 24:1-25 If you have read this chapter carefully you are probably scratching your head and asking, “If God asked David to take the census, then why does he get mad at him?” Part of the answer to that question can be found in the parallel passage in...
by Steve Thomason | Apr 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today we are going to look at the aftermath of David’s sin. We are going to look at “the Morning After” a night of unbridled sin. An interesting way to observe how a sinful human system affects a community is to do a study on specific individuals in the...
